President Biden’s new plan to fund American public programs is by taxing the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a question of if they should, but how much. Yet the question that is never asked is, “Why do we deserve their money?” The seemingly overlooked answer is we do not.
Elon Musk, for example, is a producer. He invented PayPal, made Tesla an industry leader and is taking humankind to Mars with SpaceX. What have you and I done that is comparable? He, just like many others of the hated “1%,” create products for society that you and I never thought of or knew how to create.
Can we engineer the iPhone? Do we understand how Google’s search algorithm works? Hence, until you and I can create like Elon Musk, we do not deserve a cent of the wealthy’s fortune.
Dominic Cicala
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